Distinguished Lecturer

Zak (Zaher) M. Kassas is the TRC Endowed Chair in Intelligent Transportation Systems and a Full Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. He is also the Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Center: CARMEN (Center for Automated Vehicle Research with Multimodal AssurEd Navigation), focusing on navigation resiliency and security of highly automated transportation systems. He is an internationally recognized expert for his work in positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) in GNSS-denied and GNSS-challenged environments by exploiting ambient terrestrial and nonterrestrial signals of opportunity (SoPs). Dr. Kassas is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION), and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. He authored more than 190 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, 12 magazine articles, 3 invited book chapters, and 21 U.S. patents. His research has attracted more than $26 million in competitive grants from ONR, NSF, AFOSR, DOT, NIST, Sandia National Labs, Aerospace Corporation, among others. He has given 110+ invited presentations, keynotes, and plenaries, and served as a subject matter expert to DOD, GAO, DOT, and NSF. His research interests include navigation systems, low Earth orbit satellites, cognitive sensing and software-defined radio, and intelligent transportation systems.